New Study: Analogy as the core of cumulative cultural evolution.
New paper argues that "analogy-building" served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture(differentiator from animals), by allowing humans to learn and transmit complex behavioral sequences that would otherwise be too cognitively demanding
Link : Analogy as the core of cumulative cultural evolution
Charlotte Brand, Alex Mesoudi, Paul Smaldino
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